331From Thomas Jefferson to Philippe de Létombe, 31 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve your favor of the 26th. just in the moment of my departure for Monticello, from which I shall not return till the last week of April. I have therefore but barely time to acknolege the receipt of your letter, to thank you for the trouble you have taken to aid me in my domestic administration, and to rejoice in the success which has attended your endeavors. it is a great matter to get...
332From Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis, 31 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been in hopes you would arrive here in time, with me, to make a little excursion to Albemarle, where I supposed it would be as agreeable to you to see your friends, as necessary to me to make some arrangements for my final removal hither. I shall stay there till the 29th. & then return. the time of your arrival here therefore, & your own inclinations will decide whether you follow me...
333From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Little, 31 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. White, one of the Commissioners of this city, informs me that he has heretofore had conversations with you on the subject of a road we have been wishing to get from this place to Slaterun church as direct as can be had tolerably level; for levelness is a still more important consideration than distance. it is become more interesting now to me to find such a course. as I am setting out...
334To Thomas Jefferson from John Thomson Mason, 31 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
George Town and the City of Washington was the Stage upon which Morris & Nicholson acted the last scene of swindling and imposition. They contracted debts and issued notes to an immense amount here, and such was the folly of a numbers of our inhabitants that just before they sunk, they bought up their paper to a very great amount, which paper had been issued a considerable time before. Morris...
335From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Vaughan, 31 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 15th. is put into my hand, just as I am mounting my horse for Monticello, where I shall be about three weeks making some domestic arrangements for my final settlement here. I stop to thank you for your kind congratulations & still more for your judicious observations on the circumstances of my position. one counsel will be very difficult, to draw the veil of confidence over a...
336From Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 31 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
By the preceding post you will have recieved some Observations transmitted [here] by Mr. Legaux, [& also] two precious volumes of Comparative anatomy presented to the Society by mr Cuvier , the author. I now inclose you a letter from Chancellor Livingston on the subject of the large [bones] lately found [in New York] with a drawing, & also a paper enclosed me in a former [private] letter, but...
337To Thomas Jefferson from Jean Chas, 1 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Daignés accepter un exemplaire de mon histoire politique, et philosophique de La revolution de L’amérique Septentrionale. cet ouvrage a eté presenté et dedié au premier consul de La republique francoise. J’ai obtenu Les Suffrages, et Les felicitations des savans et des philosophes. Mon ouvrage a eu Le plus grand succès. J’en suis seul L’auteur, quoiqu’il porte Le nom d’un Second cooperateur....
338To Thomas Jefferson from Auguste de Grasse, 1 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
J’Etais fort Jeune Lorsque Vous allates a Paris, mais je me Rapele parfaitement bien D’avoir Eu L’honneur de Vous y Voir plusieurs fois chez mon Pere . Lorsque j’arrivai ici En 1793 fuyant avec ma famille les dangers qui nous menacaient à St. domingue, ou je m’Etois rendu avant la Revolution pour y prendre possession des biens qui m’y Etoient devolus par la mort de mon Pere, Je n’aurois...
339To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hichborn, 1 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with no Small degree of Reluctance that I consent to tax you with an additional Correspondence, when I know you must already have many more than can be profitable to you—but while I feel conscious of a friendship, as disinterested as any man’s on Earth can be; (for it is coupled with no hope of personal benefit) & find myself in a Circle of as respectable Patriots as the Country can...
340To Thomas Jefferson from Robert Leslie, 1 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
your favour of Feby 8th was duly recieved, I hoped before this time, to have had the honour of thanking you in person, for you attention to me. as I intend visiting the City of Washington, agreable to your recommendation, before I settle, but have been detained here longer than I expected, in winding up the old consern, and have not yet finished, but wish to do it, before I leave the place,...